Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Fletch Bowling <fletchb at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Fletch Bowling <fletchb at gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Hello, >> >> Newbie to CentOS and attempting to run it under a windows xp host. >> >> I see there is a open version of vmware tools available but getting >> >> various dependency errors when attempting to install. the rpms. >> >> >> >> Will these tools install for ver CentOS 5 or are they for an earlier >> >> version? >> >> >> >> P.S. How closely does CentOS match Redhat binaries? VMware tools (from >> >> workstation 6) install just fine but could not be configured due to >> >> various errors. >> > >> > Have you tried open-vm-tools from here? >> > >> > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2007-December/000158.html >> > >> Yes those are the tools I tried to install. Do you need the new kernels >> as well? >> >> Thanks, Fletch >> > > You can tell for which kernel the kmod rpm is built for by looking at > the name. For example, > > kmod-open-vm-tools-0-0.20080123.2.6.18_53.1.13.el5.i686.rpm > > is for kernel 2.6.18_53.1.13.el5.i686 > > Find the one that matches your running kernel (uname -rm). > > Akemi > Thanks that got me a bit further but still running into dependency errors: This is my kernel: 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen i686 This is the error message: Missing Dependency: open-vm-tools-kmod-common >= 0 is needed by package kmod-open-vm-tools Any idea where I can this this rpm?? Thanks, Fletch > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >